The World: Latest Stories

Did the Olympics whet your appetite for Brazilian music?

Ramen is the currency of US prisons. But in other prisons around the globe it's a far different and, often times, far worse.

The Old City of Istanbul has long been a man's world. But inside one fifth-generation candy shop, times are changing.

The ice-choked Northwest Passage used to be fit only for fearless adventures. Now, thanks to climate change, a 13-deck luxury cruise ship is sailing right through.

La Gente Anda Diciendo collects phrases overheard in Argentina's capital and turns them into Facebook posts, books and notepads.

Turkish tanks help in move to capture of border town from the Islamic State group. But Turkey also wants to prevent the US-backed Kurdish rebels from advancing.

At least 120 people were reported killed and hundreds more injured, trapped or missing from the pre-dawn earthquake.

Nigerian American writer Teju Cole's new collection of essays is all about the intersection of tough topics — politics, art, race and place.

An entrepreneur from MIT took his startup idea to India. Few were impressed. But that disappointment hatched a new idea, and a different pathway for teaching young tech entrepreneurs.

Rosalind Helderman found that new emails show a very tight relationship between donors to the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton was secretary.

The war in Syria has left Syrian refugees scattered across Europe. Some of those who have fled are musicians. Now, one classically trained Syrian bassist living in the German city of Bremen is trying to bring his countrymen and women together to form an expat orchestra. Catherine Girardeau has our story.

More than 1,500 years ago, at the height of the Roman Empire, a young woman died. Someone close to her thought she might need some help in the next life. Help from a demon.

The Pentagon says “It's not a no fly zone.” But a Kurdish rebel commander in northeastern Syria interviewed by PRI said, “The American forces are on the ground. ... We asked our partners to create a no-fly zone. ... They accepted this request.” And he said it's working.

The agency's budget is now more than 50 percent dedicated to fighting forest fires, which takes away from what the agency could do for preservation and recreation.

There are striking similarities between today and the Renaissance era. The good news? Humanity survived the Renaissance.

Security fears are keeping visitors away from France, and businesses that serve tourists are feeling the pinch.

Ethiopia's Feyisa Lilesa marked his silver medal in the Olympic Games men's marathon on Sunday by staging a dramatic protest against his country's government, claiming his life could be in peril.

Japan's Prime Minster Shinzo Abe dressed as Super Mario during the closing ceremony at the Rio Olympics. Video games are big in his country and around the globe. Gamers say it's well past time video games were included as an Olympic event.

Cameroon musician Moken won the green card lottery in 1996. Since his move to the US, he's attended design college in Detroit, launched a line of shoes, and this year released his debut CD, "Chapters of My Life."

The bar is over a century old, and has been part of London's gay community since about the 1920s.

Since its creation in the 19th century, the London Underground — or Tube — metro system has never been a 24-hour service. That's changing.

A French American reporter returns to her hometown in Burgundy and is struck by how medieval bells still dictate the pace of life there.

Rio de Janeiro returned to the cold reality of Brazil's political crisis and recession on Monday after bringing a carnivalesque curtain down on its Olympics festival and passing the torch to Tokyo.

The trial of a Malian jihadist charged with war crimes for orchestrating the 2012 destruction of nine Timbuktu mausoleums and a section of a famous mosque, opened on Monday at the International Criminal Court.

The vaquita is a rare cetacean species that lives in the Gulf of California. And efforts by poachers to catch another endangered fish are also entangling the vaquitas.

Humans today live in a sea of chemicals, and we are just beginning to understand how they affect our health. The endocrine disrupting chemical Bisphenol-A has been linked to physical illnesses like cancer and research from the University of Missouri found that the common substance seems to impair parenting behavior in mice.

Technology experts are worried the US voting system is vulnerable — and not to voting fraud from lack of voter ID. They're worried about hacking, especially so after recent attack on Democratic Party computer systems.

The world’s fastest swim stroke probably isn't what you think. It's not the crawl, or the breaststroke. It's the "fish kick" — and here's why.

How actor Danny McBride takes the worst traits in characters — meanness, profanity — plays them up, and still convinces you to love them.

While women are usually the farmers in traditional societies, it’s still a male-dominated business in the US. But women are slowly changing the face of farming in the US, especially by raising and selling home-grown vegetables, flowers, jellies and other farm products.

Wildlife trafficking is a global problem and the US is not immune. In the Pacific Northwest, a small law enforcement and judicial team polices Washington and Oregon for wildlife infractions, but limited resources, budget woes and loose laws allow poachers to evade penalties.

Songs have been written about Louisiana's great flood of 1927, and about Katrina. As the state is inundated anew, music plays a role in bringing communities together.

Between Zika, filthy water and crime, the 2016 Rio Olympics had a lot of doubters.

Religious dress codes: Are they just about religion?

We're getting better at figuring out whether something like this month's deluge in Louisiana was influenced by climate change. And that's important, says a climate scientist who's also an aid worker, to get a better handle on what might be ahead to try to avert more human disasters.

Dating apps have been around for a while, but not the industry is expanding to create apps more focused on finding friends than finding a special someone.

There are allegations of fixed matches and widespread doping. This isn't anything new. But it's time boxing took itself seriously so others did, too.

This week the right-wing Polish governing party proposed a new law to outlaw the use of phrases like "Polish death camp" or "Polish concentration camp."

Many Ktunaxa lost their native tongue when they were sent to church-run boarding schools. Now the Ktunaxa language is making a modest comeback at a local school where both First Nations and white students study it.

In a crazy twist, US swimmers in Brazil went from being supposed crime victims to suspects of an investigation.

Instead of spending the summer lying around playing on a smartphone, these kids are strumming and harmonizing.

Oded Gur-Arie was not yet 13 years old when he found out his father was not like most other dads.

Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh was among eight people, including five children, injured when Russian or Syrian government forces wrecked his home in a nighttime airstrike.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said this week he was ready to get vicious in the war with what he called radical Islam. But he also said he was ready to embrace "moderate Muslims." The leader of "Muslims for Peace" responds.

In the absence of any sex ed, advocates are trying to get teenagers to take matters into their own hands, and teach each other.

Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui has won fresh praise online for speaking frankly about having her period while competing in Rio.